Hnífsdalur
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Hnífsdalur () is a small village in the municipality of Ísafjarðarbær, located between Bolungarvík and Ísafjörður. The literal meaning of the name is "Knife's Valley". Some guess that the thin or sharp line of the mountain range resembles that of a knife. No mention is made of the place in the Book of Settlement.
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Place details
- Locality
- Hnífsdalur
- Region
- Westfjords
- Country
- Ísland
- Population
- 216
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Hnífsdalur
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- File:Hnífsdalur.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Hnífsdalur, 2009
- Settlement.image_map
- Isafjardarbaer map.png
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of the Municipality of Ísafjarðarbær
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Iceland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Constituency
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Northwest Constituency
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Westfjords
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Ísafjarðarbær
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 1 January 2024
- Settlement.population_total
- 210
- Settlement.postal_code_type
- Póstnúmer
- Settlement.postal_code
- 410
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Iceland
- Located in
- Northwest
- Population
- 208
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Hnífsdalur.JPG
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- Hnífsdalur
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Encyclopedic overview
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Hnífsdalur () is a small village in the municipality of Ísafjarðarbær, located between Bolungarvík and Ísafjörður. The literal meaning of the name is "Knife's Valley". Some guess that the thin or sharp line of the mountain range resembles that of a knife. No mention is made of the place in the Book of Settlement.
==History== In 1910 an avalanche killed 20 people in Hnífsdalur, one of the deadliest in Iceland in the 20th century.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hnífsdalur” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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